{"product_id":"exposed-to-innumerable-delusions-john-waterbury-9780521435499","title":"Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey","description":"The states of Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey have all developed extensive public enterprise sectors and have sought to regulate most economic activities outside the state sector. Their experiences have been typical of scores of developing countries that followed similar paths of industrialization. This study examines the origins of these state sectors, the dynamics of their growth and crises, and the efforts to reform or liquidate them. It is argued that public ownership creates its own culture and pathology that are similar across otherwise different systems. The logic of principal-agent relations under public ownership is so powerful that it swamps culture and peculiar institutional histories. While public sectors accumulate powerful associated interests over time, against most predictions these prove relatively powerless to block the reform process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Waterbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521435498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521435499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.01w x 0.70d","brand":"John Waterbury","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43920016933119,"sku":"9780521435499","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1c48f95a-8dd2-4b56-adb8-3578f65fab30.jpg?v=1680813132","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exposed-to-innumerable-delusions-john-waterbury-9780521435499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}